Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 2539-2542 , November 2004

Rewarded gift for living renal donors

  • B. Larijani

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr Bagher Larijani, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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  • F. Zahedi
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  • S. Ghafouri-Fard

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PII: S0041-1345(04)01303-X

doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.11.013

Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 2539-2542 , November 2004

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